[yu2971512385-ui]

What

Two things in the locale time_zone lists, both about identifiers rather than translations.

1. The Spanish locales translated the identifiers

es.yml and es-MX.yml translated the timezone identifiers themselves — continent prefixes and city names — so Faker::Address.time_zone returns strings no timezone library can resolve:

es      Europa/London   Europa/Madrid   Pacífico/Midway
es-MX   África/Nairobi  América/Nueva_York   Asia/Tokio   Asia/Daca

Drawing 400 values per locale and resolving each through TZInfo::Timezone.get:

locale	distinct	unparseable
en	117	0
sk	114	0
es	121	44
es-MX	117	95

sk.yml settles what the convention is. It is a translated locale too, and its time_zone list is byte for byte the English one — the identifiers were left alone. Every valid entry in es and es-MX was already present in that list (0 of them unique), so both now carry it and nothing is lost.

2. Three identifiers IANA has superseded

Updated in all four locales:

was	now
Europe/Kiev	Europe/Kyiv
America/Godthab	America/Nuuk
Asia/Rangoon	Asia/Yangon

Asia/Kolkata and Asia/Kathmandu were already current, so these lists had been refreshed before and these three were missed.

After

en 118 distinct, 0 unparseable
sk 119 distinct, 0 unparseable
es 120 distinct, 0 unparseable
es-MX 118 distinct, 0 unparseable

All four locale files parse as YAML, and address.time_zone holds the same 143 entries in each, Pacific/Midway through Pacific/Apia.

Left alone

de.yml has four entries that are display names — MEZ, Central European Time — not identifiers. That is a different question from this one, so I have not touched it.

A note on running the tests

I could not get the suite to execute locally: test_helper.rb requires both minitest/autorun and test/unit, and on Ruby 4.0.7 the latter takes over the runner, so every file reports 0 runs, 0 assertions. That happens on a clean checkout before my change too, so it looks like a Ruby-version thing rather than anything here — but it does mean the numbers above come from exercising Faker::Address.time_zone directly against TZInfo, not from the suite.

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